George Shao

Hi, I'm a software engineer in Toronto, studying Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Currently seeking 2026 new grad SWE roles.

Work

I've previously worked on:

• high-performance distributed storage systems for xAI at X (Twitter)
• storage, databases, backend, & frontend at ETHGlobal
• payments infra at Drop

Open-Source

Arcade (Graphics Rendering Library): Optimized memory management, achieving 1500% FPS increase on low-end GPUs.

TorchSnapshot: Patched Pytorch's ML model checkpointing library, increasing performance by reducing client authentication overhead and integrating multipart uploads.

Also contributed to Immich (Google Photos Alternative).

You can reach me by email at GeorgeShao123@gmail.com